Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422858AbWCXOUQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:20:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422859AbWCXOUQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:20:16 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.204]:5530 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422858AbWCXOUN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:20:13 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=do2dUNa+H8vyIAyVtmzlWGGL+2auhxSnOmMCwzE+ePMF5xL4YiePTE5v29ljA/K5sGmB5oIfsEKqOzUJQZQPDfx4AtLq864SYRBKRburmwho9h3FWyew3+cQipfyFz3g65B4lzil5aA++agW8SG/vlA1/+dgTmdtYYsz8MYopMI= Message-ID: <4c4443230603240620s5baab07ei361b54625dcefd7e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:20:12 +0800 From: yang.y.yi@gmail.com To: "Arjan van de Ven" Subject: Re: Connector: Filesystem Events Connector v3 Cc: "Evgeniy Polyakov" , "Andrew Morton" , "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matthltc@us.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <1143188094.2882.22.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <4423673C.7000008@gmail.com> <1143183541.2882.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060323.230649.11516073.davem@davemloft.net> <20060323232345.1ca16f3f.akpm@osdl.org> <20060324080839.GB5426@2ka.mipt.ru> <1143188094.2882.22.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1430 Lines: 36 On 3/24/06, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 11:08 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:23:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org) > wrote: > > > "David S. Miller" wrote: > > > > > > > > From: Arjan van de Ven > > > > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:59:01 +0100 > > > > > > > > > then make the syslog part optional.. if it's not already! > > > > > > > > Regardless I still think the filesystem events connector is a useful > > > > facility. > > > > > > Why's that? > > > > > > (I'd viewed it as a fun thing, but I haven't really seen much pull for > it, > > > and the scalability issues in there aren't trivial). > > > > This module uses ratelimiting of event generation, so it will not hurt > > performance, but probably this should be somehow tuned from userspace. > > > .. so it has become unreliable for any kind of real use that depends on > getting complete events. Such as virus scanning or updatedb etc > > If there is such a use, that explains this connector is useful a bit, ratelimiting is used to prevent DoS, audit also has such a feature, you may take a look at it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/